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		<title>Pagan Blog Project: Blood</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/229</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hospital life is still eating up my time, so I missed the first week of B prompts. This week I&#8217;m writing about blood. ***** Most Pagan groups are against using blood in ritual. I find that it can be useful in specific situations. Menstrual blood has been useful to me in fertility rites, for example. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to My Christian Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/172</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year where all over the internet, there are assertions that the only acceptable greeting is &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and that anyone who doesn&#8217;t agree is a horrible person. There&#8217;s even a photo this year that says we should just leave the US entirely. I can&#8217;t help but think that it&#8217;s a terribly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Known to the wider community?</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/73</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on The Wild Hunt, they&#8217;ve been discussing an alleged murder, where the supposed perpetrator has said she is Wiccan, and that she killed with her athame in self defense. A commentor on one of the posts has mentioned that the alleged murderer is &#8220;unknown to the larger Pagan community.&#8221;  In these days of Wicca [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritually broken?</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/71</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading the blogs of a few big-name bloggers who recently went on a &#8220;mission trip&#8221; to Africa. While there, they learned what poverty looks like, up close and personal. They encouraged their readers to sponsor children. They saw both the natural wonders of the area they were in, and the misery of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on Pagan Children</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/65</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;specifically, the smallest ones. Granted, this issue comes up regularly in my head because I have a toddler, and I&#8217;m Pagan. It seems to me that there are a lot of &#8220;Pagan Parenting&#8221; resources, if you&#8217;re willing to look for them, but that most are geared towards teens and tweens, and most assume that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pagan Mid-Life Crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/40</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 14:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me this weekend why there&#8217;s such a clamoring for &#8220;more advanced&#8221; books. Yes, it&#8217;s partly because there are so many books for beginners, or near-beginners, and not a lot beyond that. But I think a bigger problem is that after a few years, we get stuck in this sort of mid-life crisis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Presence of the Goddess</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/30</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, The Trials and Tribulations of Being a Hard Polytheist in the Modern Pagan World I generally consider myself to be a hard polytheist: I believe that the various and sundry Gods and Goddesses are separate individuals. But I believe this for a rather odd reason. I figure if it appears that there are many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Women&#8217;s Mysteries</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/29</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern woman, at least in America, is under a series of unique pressures that make me believe that women only groups that focus on women’s mysteries a very important thing these days. We are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t, expected to match every impossible ideal that society holds up for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enjoying our Faith</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/24</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about things “good Pagans” do or don&#8217;t do always reminds me of the following quote from Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8220;American Gods.&#8221; As a bit of context &#8211; Wednesday (Odin) and his right hand man, Shadow (Chesterton) are with the Goddess Ostara, at a coffee shop, and the waitress is wearing a pentacle. Wednesday looked up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bad Pagan</title>
		<link>http://www.janetcallahan.com/archives/16</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hi. My name is Janet, and I&#8217;m a bad Pagan.&#8221; I&#8217;m starting to think this is how I should introduce myself in emails and at local gatherings. It would save a lot of hassle and assumptions, and might make for a decent conversation starter. Or, at the very least, it would serve as a way [...]]]></description>
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